Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3

Since i posted about Modern Warfare 2 a couple years ago Im going to post about Modern warfare 3 after having finished it today

If you missed my post on MW2 i basically said this

Pat1487 wrote:

I played it for PCIt was awesome

I would be surprised if it wasnt the game of the year

Ill try to go back, take some pics, and post them here, i shouldve taken some while playing, but i was so wrapped up in the gameplay and story that i didnt think of it

I feel like i need to explain my reaction to thatI really shouldnt review games immediately after playing them, or i should at least know that its not as good as i think it is when in that mind set after having completed itI went into the singleplayer with 0 expectations and it ended up being decent, which surprised me so much so that i perceived it as being amazingHonestly MW2 just won me over with that airport bit, you never really see that when playing a heroAlthough, thinking back on it, what kind of CIA agent would just start shooting innocent civilians, undercover agents do crimes to keep their cover, but mass murder, that doesnt seem like something a heroic CIA agent would do

Anyway, this is about MW3, which i have just completed playing

Overall it was decent, but ridiculously short, lasting only about 5 and a half hoursParts of it felt like a chore, and a bit repetitiveThere was pretty much 1 enemy you fought the entire time, just 1000s of clones of the same enemy, there are rarely tanks and helicopters you can fight, and about 2 or 3 levels where you fight a different looking enemy that behaves the same way as the standard oneMost of the mechanics are reused from MW2 or MW1

There is 1 part on a plane that was kindve cool, but ridiculous, and an underwater scuba part that shouldve been longer/expanded onTheres also a part that lasts all of 5 seconds that i really liked (before i knew it was only 5 seconds) where you take control of a civilian (this isnt a spoiler, ill talk more about this with spoilers though)Other then that its just shoot everything until it explodes into fire/blood or reused sequences from MW1/2

My biggest complaint though is that it tries to force an emotional reaction out of the playerAnd i cant talk about it without going into spoilers so

Spoiler:

Its when you take control of the civilian father thats with his wife and 6 year old daughter on vacationThe father is recording his family vacation, so while controlling him you have a camera overlay on your screen

Now when this part started i thought it was going to play out with you filming, bad stuff happens, you film bad stuff, your film is found/used by the other characters you control in some way to get information that helps them do something, or that sends them on a mission at some pointI expected the family to be killed in the process of thatWhat actually happens is that you take 10 steps or so and then the family immediately dies by events that you already knew would happenNone of the other characters know about it, and that family is never mentioned again

There was no reason to put that inThe pretense for it being there is to tell the player that this happened somewhere else, which could have been done so many other ways, or with just 1 or 2 lines during a loading screen that says this happenedThe reason i think they put it there was to try to do something like with the airport from MW2, where people would be offended/shocked that good innocent people (including a child) died

If they did it the way i thought they wouldWhere there would be a 5-10 minute level where you walk around filming stuff, hearing the family talk to each other about things(build up the characters so that their deaths really meant something to the player and didnt feel like it was trying to force an emotional response) then have things go wrong resulting in their deaths, and tieing it back to the main characters by having the video that was taken contain some information, that wouldve been good and i probably would have said the game was amazing because of itNot only that, but a 5-10 min break from shooting people wouldve been nice right there

I feel like that might be what they wanted to do (something like that)But decided not to because the average MW fan would think that sucked since they cant go more then 30 seconds without killing/exploding something

Also you cant change your FOV, and the FOV the game gives you is terrible, its like the characters you play have some sort of eye problem that causes them to not have any peripheral vision

I say "overall it was decent" because the story was finished up in a decent way and the overall experience was enjoyable, the guns fired well and shooting stuff for 5 hours is fun sometimesMW2 was better

On a side note, i was thinking of something while playing itYou know how you switch perspectives between characters for different missions80% of the time i was playing i imagined that the main character of the game was a disembodied cyborg time traveler with amnesia that could leap into people of the past and access their memories and just assumed that he was that person (since he has amnesia, and keeps getting amnesia every time he leaps)It explains why/how you change perspectives, what happens when you die (you just go back in time a few seconds to redo that part again), how you can die as that person and keep going, and why/how your health regens (the person that the disembodied cyborg is in is just a shell so pain isnt much of a problem for him)(It explains the FOV problem to, the cyborg has trouble interfacing with human eyes and cant see properly)

Its amazing how well a disembodied cyborg time traveler with amnesia can fit into the Modern Warfare seriesI want to see them make a game about him, and his back story, it basically writes itself

BackseatDriverCaptain

Subject: Re: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 Thu Nov 10, 2011 8:10 pm

Ive heard people call it MW 2.5 because of how little it has changed from MW2. I watched a video of the game on youtube, if it wasnt labeled MW3, i probably would have thought it was a MW2 replay. I dont really have anything to go off of but that (expecially since i only have a Wii).

Pat1487Moderator

Subject: Re: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 Thu Nov 10, 2011 8:43 pm

Yeah, thats a good way to put itAnd you can play it on PC

marksoccerCommander

Subject: Re: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 Thu Nov 17, 2011 7:45 pm

Ok, the real question, this or battlefield 3, for ps3, I'm leaning towards battlefield. No trolling or being a fan boy, only facts and reasons

Pat1487Moderator

Subject: Re: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 Thu Nov 17, 2011 9:36 pm

I would always recommend PC over PS3, but thats an entirely different topic

For PS3, I wouldnt get either and would instead get Skyrim

But if you want a multiplayer military FPS i would get Battlefield 3Call of Duty's multiplayer sucks in comparison to Battlefield's in generalBattlefield 3 has vehicles, classes, teamwork, and huge battles (64 player, not sure if thats true for PS3)Battlefield 3 feels more like a war since MW3 can only have 16 at max

Also in MW3 theres no teamwork and whoever gets a kill streak first will win simply by abusing the kill streak perks and racking up more kills to get more kill streaksI guess if you are good at getting kill streaks and want to be a one man army then go with MW3If your bad at getting kill streaks youll just get owned

If youre looking for a singleplayer experience I would pick Skyrim againBut if youre looking for a military FPS singleplayer experience I would pick MW3Call of Duty has always had better singleplayer then Battlefield in general(with the exception of Bad Company 1)The signleplayer only works if youve played the other 2 though

marksoccerCommander

Subject: Re: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 Fri Nov 18, 2011 3:51 pm

Of course, skyrim is the best choice, then there's Arkham city and uncharted 3, but me and my friends wanted a game that we can all play online together. I'm leaning towards bf3 and I'm trying to convince the others. And thanks pat

Achilles.42Commander

Subject: Re: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 Fri Nov 18, 2011 10:34 pm

Pat1487 wrote:

I would always recommend PC over PS3, but thats an entirely different topic

For PS3, I wouldnt get either and would instead get Skyrim

But if you want a multiplayer military FPS i would get Battlefield 3

Count the ways in which you've fallen short of Pat's expectations.

And i agree with going with battlefield. the only time i played it i was drunk, but that one time was pretty fun, and some how we got hit with an earth quake, and then were flying planes--it was pretty epic.

AmAzIn[G]Commander

Subject: Re: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 Sat Nov 19, 2011 8:29 pm

Achilles.42 wrote:

Pat1487 wrote:

I would always recommend PC over PS3, but thats an entirely different topic

For PS3, I wouldnt get either and would instead get Skyrim

But if you want a multiplayer military FPS i would get Battlefield 3

Count the ways in which you've fallen short of Pat's expectations.

And i agree with going with battlefield. the only time i played it i was drunk, but that one time was pretty fun, and some how we got hit with an earth quake, and then were flying planes--it was pretty epic.